Apparatus to stop damage from Frozen Ground and expanding Ice

ABSTRACT

This Apparatus to stop damage from Frozen Ground and expanding Ice is to be used to protect property that could be damage from ground and water when it freezes. As ground and water freezes it expands, and when it thaws and refreezes it expands more this causes damage to property. On ground that freezes it expands with great force that can crush rock, this force will lift, crack, brake, crush, and push in walls. Likewise when water freezes it expands and causes great damage, this can be seen around lakes that people have landscaped and in the spring they have to fix it or redo it all over. 
     This invention is used to stop damage from frozen ground and ice by creating a brake line in the frozen ground and ice causing a week spot and redirecting the energy instead of pushing in a straight line this invention will cause the energy upward where the expanding ground or ice would pile up, and stops the expanding energy from damaging property. This invention may be made of any type of materials that would be smooth or slippery on at least one side. It may be held in place with bracing that may change to fit the different materials the main body is made of, such as what is required by the Department of Natural Resource or other state or government department.

For as long as man has changed the landscape by building some kind ofstructure on it we had to fight mother nature to keep from damaging it.Such as fixing up the beach or lake shore on lakes that freeze they havehad to fix the beach or shoreline every year. This is caused by the lakefreezing and thawing and refreezing, causing the ice to grow and expand.As the ice expands it pushes the shoreline up and away from the lake.For those that may spend a lot of money to make their shoreline lookgood, they would have to spend a lot of money to fix it up indeed. Icame up with a way to stop this damage from happening each year. Use ofthis product will stop the ice from damaging the shoreline, beach andlandscaping. This apparatus makes a brake line in the ice causing it topushup and piling the ice in the lake and not pushing it on theshoreline and damaging the beach. In the same way the ice damages thingsso does the ground when frozen. For as long as man has put some kind ofstructure up the frozen ground damages it. The use of this inventionwill minimize or eliminate the damage by creating a weak spot in theground and ice and redirecting the energy of the frozen ground and ice.This would work to protect buildings landscaping beaches, and otherproperty that would need protecting. Although in time different kinds ofmaterials, and the shape of materials may change, the means of theinvention would remain the same to establish a weak spot in the groundand ice and changing the energy of the moving ground and ice.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIGURES

In order that the invention may be more fully understood, it will now bedescribed by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawingin which;

FIG. 1 is a perspective side view of the in ground use of the presentinvention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective front view of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a perspective side view of the in-water use of the presentinvention;

FIG. 4 is a perspective side view of the deep water use of the presentinvention;

FIG. 5 is a perspective side view of a enhance stake used in the presentinvention;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of two other shapes of the main body of thepresent invention.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the present invention that would be usedon ground and after the ice forms. Not needing support bracing.

DESCRIPTION OF THE REFERENCED NUMERALS

Turning now descriptively to the drawings, in which similar referencecharacters denote similar reference characters denote similar elementthroughout the several views, the figures illustrate the presentinvention. With regard to the reference numerals used, the followingnumbering is used throughout the various drawing figures:

1 is the mane body of the invention made of any type of material thatcan hold up to harsh use from frozen ground and water.

2 are the hoes for stabilizing the invention.

3 floats

4 poles/stake

5 deep water anchor

7 ground

8 uplifting frozen ground

9 frozen ice to shore

10 uplifting ice from deeper water

11 enhance stake

12 brace for enhance stake

13 a different shape of the mane body

14 a different shape of the mane body

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The following discussion describes in detail one embodiment of theinvention (and several variations of that embodiment). This discussionshould not be construed, however, as limiting the invention to thoseparticular embodiment's practitioners skilled in the art will recognizenumerous other embodiment's as well. For definition of the completescope of the invention the reader is directed to appended claims.

FIG. 1 is a perspective side view of the invention apparatus where 1 isthe main body of the invention that causes a weak brake in 7 the frozenground. The main body 1 of the invention is buried in the ground 7 andheld in place by poles 4 until buried. When the ground 7 freezes itexpands 8 and moves, thus causing damage. This apparatus redirects theenergy from the frozen ground 8 up and stopping the damage. This wouldbe useful to prevent damage to shorelines and beaches and aroundbuildings to stop frozen ground 8 pushing walls in.

FIG. 2 is a perspective front view of the invention apparatus showingthe front side view of the main body 1 and the stake whole 2 throughbody 1.

FIG. 3 is a perspective side view of the invention apparatus showing inthe water side view of 1 the main body of the invention is suspended inthe water held in place by 4 anchored into the ground 7 and float 3until the water freezes. Once the water freezes it expands 9 and 10 themain body 1 causes a weak spot in the ice and causing the ice 10 to pushup in the lake and not damaging the shoreline.

FIG. 4 is a perspective side view of the invention apparatus showing theinventions in deep water use. The main body 1 is held in place by thefloats 3 and the anchor 5.

FIG. 5 is a perspective side view of the invention apparatus showing 11enhance stake and 12 brace that supports 1 body of the invention.

FIG. 6. is a perspective view of other shapes of the 1 main body. 13 isone of the shapes that shows ridges to strengthen 1 main body, and 14.is a different shape of the 1. main body. These ridges are to strengthen1. main body fox use in the open waters or just off shore to maintainthe shape and angle of the main body and to maintain the right angleuntil the water freezes. By no means should this apparatus be limited tojust a few shapes. As time changes and new materials are made so willthe shapes of the present invention. Also width height length orthickness may vary from material to material and use. Still the main useof the invention will accomplish the same purpose to create a weak spotin frozen ground and frozen water thus changing the energy of the frozenground and ice.

FIG. 7. is a perspective side view of the invention where the 1 the mainbody is made of a thin but ridged material that raps over the 3 floatmaterial and rest on top of the ice and the rest of the 1 main body isinserted in the ice. This all is held in place by stakes through 2 stakeholes.

1. The Apparatus to protect from Frozen Ground and Ice is used toprotect your property from damage from frozen ground and ice that wouldexpand and do damage to property
 2. The apparatus of claim 1 can be usedin the water off shorelines to prevent ice in the lake from damaging theshoreline or other property needing protection.
 3. The apparatus ofclaim 2 is suspended off shore to create a weak brake line in theexpanding ice causing it to push up and pile on the ice and not damagethe shorelines.
 4. The apparatus of claim
 2. is suspended by the floatsand stakes and other bracing that will hold the body of the invention inplace till the ice forms. Also the apparatus in claim 4 can be suspendedor held in place by the stakes and brackets not pictured in the drawingsthat would hold the body of the invention.
 5. The apparatus of claim 2.can be used in deep water or off shore protection from shifting andmoving ice.
 6. The apparatus of claim
 1. can be used in the ground bybaring it in the ground at the high water mark allowing the ground onthe lake side to push up thus protecting the shoreline.
 7. The apparatusof claim
 1. can be used in the ground and around to protect other thingslike buildings or other platforms that can be damage from expandingfrozen ground.
 8. The apparatus of claim
 7. would be used around abuilding to protect its basement walls from frozen ground that wouldpush in on the walls causing damage to it.
 9. The apparatus of claim 7.could be used around floating slabs of a building or patio to keepfrozen ground from damaging it.
 10. The apparatus showing in FIG. 7shows a drawing of a simple design that can be in place after the iceforms by cutting a slot in the ice with a chain saw than just slide the1 main body in the slot and staking it down through the stake hole 2.This would leave just the top of the 1 mane body and the 3 float theonly part of the invention seen above the ice. And when used on groundit would have the same exposure.
 11. The apparatus to protect fromFrozen Ground and Ice in claims
 1. though
 10. works by the main body ofthe invention placed in the ground or ice at a angle causing a weak spotfor the frozen ground and ice allowing the ground and ice to move upwhen it expands to stop its damaging power.
 12. The apparatus to protectfrom Frozen Ground and Ice of claims
 1. through
 10. explains theplacement of the main body of the invention and how the main body isheld in place whether in the ground or suspended in the water until itfreezes or on frozen ice, and due to different materials change. As timegoes on the support may change from vertical to horizontal to crossbracing, but the principal of the invention will remain the same wherethe main body causes a weak spot in the frozen ground and ice to preventdamage.